Written by Gerald Harrison – The Harrison Collection & Award
Where we choose to call home says a lot about us, hence the warehouse that Sébastien Valliergues calls his own speaks volumes about the man and his passion for wood. Known by the Instagram handle @georgewoodman64, Seb even looks slightly like a fine tree that you might see maturing on a Spanish hillside, maybe an olive tree, his skin has a certain wooden texture and tone to it, but his panache and skill for sculpting the material is anything but wooden. The warehouse is like nothing I have seen before; there is a central  courtyard which is home to a few old bikes sitting on wooden plinths of course, and on each side of this space Seb has built his house, inside this cavernous building.
The place feels not totally dissimilar to the fake ghost towns in western films, tumbleweed mysteriously blowing down the street, but this is more than a simple façade, this is home even if it does have more than a hint of film-set vibe to it, maybe his ten years working in cinematography has made an impression on his subconscious. As you walk in, on the right hand side there is a two storey accommodation unit which stretches to the ceiling high above and on the left, the kitchen sits above the workshop, within which Seb feels most at home to create his current masterpiece. Everything is made from wood. Connecting the two buildings are a series of walkways and steps for the in-house cat who teeters perilously high, ...